Emotional Intelligence: A Key Element of Scrum
Best Wishes to you all in 2005... Maturity and growth... Have you ever considered how we develop and which of our attributes are the most difficult to cultivate. We all grow physically without effort (providing we eat well), we all mature economically because without economic maturity we remain dependent on others and cannot achieve our goals, our intelligence quotient develops as we mature through our experiences, skillsets and knowledge. For the more pedantic readers I will cede the point that a certain percentage of these elements are based on our genetic make-up and environmental influences, but hopefully you will understand the point I'm making. These growth attributes are either forced on us or are natural. The one growth attribute we do not necessarily need to develop is our Emotional Intelligence. Higgs & Dulewicz (1999), define Emotional Intelligence as " Achieving one's goals through the ability to manage one's own feelings and emotions, to be sensitive t...